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age of "three-score years and ten," the allotted age of man; many
reached the age of 80, and some lived beyond the age of 90 years.
These 239 deaths cannot therefore be considered as connected with
the death rate to be assigned to the division of Greenwich East.
It will also be right, that the 187 deaths registered from the
Union Workhouse, most of whom were paupers sent from the
Parishes of Woolwich, Deptford, and the district of Greenwich
West, should be deducted from the total amount of deaths registered
in that division of the District; thus leaving a mortality of
240 persons actually dying in the division of East Greenwich
during the year 1856, being at the rate of only 19 and a fraction
per 1,000.
The mortality represented in the division of Greenwich West
also requires some explanation.
The Dreadnought Hospital Ship numbered 100 deaths during
the same year, which being deducted from the total amount of 480
registered in that division, will leave a mortality of 380 persons,
which will show a death rate of 21 per 1,000; and thus making a
total death rate for the Parish of Greenwich for the year 1856 to
be a fraction over 19 per 1,000,
The death rate for the City of London for the year 1856 was
24 per 1,000; Chelsea, 23 per 1,000; Belgravia, 22 per 1,000;
the Parish of Saint Luke, Middlesex, 26; the Parish of Saint
Pancras, 20; and, according to the Returns of the Registrar
General, the death rate for all the Country Towns, for the first
quarter of the year 1857, amounted to 20 per 1,000. You will
thus perceive, that the death rate for the Parish of Greenwich is
low compared with other Metropolitan Districts.
In the published Returns of the Registrar General, a great
injustice has been inflicted on the Town of Greenwich, which will
be explained as follows:—
The whole of the deaths occurring in the Greenwich Union,
comprising the Parishes of Saint Paul and Saint Nicholas,
Deptford, the Parish of Greenwich, (including the Royal Hospital,
the Dreadnought Hospital Ship, and Union Workhouse,) and the
Parish of Woolwich, have been hitherto registered under the name
of "Greenwich;" thereby leading the public to suppose—or, at